Unable to create directory $HOME/.bzr.conf on windows 2000

John A Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Fri Oct 28 05:49:14 BST 2005


John A Meinel wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
>> On 28/10/05, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
>>> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>>>> Allowing _bazaar/ instead of .bazaar/ when the later is not found is
>>>> another option.
>>> That's why IPython use _ipython directory on Windows instead of .ipython
>>> as should. But, IMHO, it's ugly.
>>>
>>> And I think BEST way for Windows is not to use .bazaar or _bazaar
>>> because both variants is non-native and strange and ugly and... But
>>> using $APPDATA\bazaar\2.0\ direcotry as John Meinel suggest earlier.
>>> This is most native way.
>> OK.  Could one of you please prepare a patch to do that?
>>
> ...
> 
>> --
>> Martin
>>
>>
> 
> Attached is an untested changeset which should implement the appropriate
> functionality. Including appropriate changes to the test suite.
> 
> I reviewed it pretty thoroughly, but I can't guarantee that everything
> works, since it is really difficult to remotely connect to a win32
> machine. (stupid lack of ssh :)
> 
> John
> =:->

It turns out the patch really did have some problems with it. The tests
I was running were testing the wrong functions.

Anyway, attached is a more correct patch, which actually passes under win32.

John
=:->

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